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1. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
4. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
9. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
13. Seed of a pea plant.
14. Strong and sharp.
15. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. Not reflecting light.
18. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
19. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
33. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
35. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
37. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
40. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. A public promotion of some product or service.
44. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
45. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
47. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
53. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
56. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
57. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
59. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
60. Clean with one's bill, of birds.
63. Having relatively few calories.
64. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
65. Fastened with stitches.
66. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
2. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
3. The mother of Jesus.
4. Informal terms for a mother.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. Showily imitative of art or artists.
7. Be seated.
8. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
9. Very spicy sauce made from tabasco peppers.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
11. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
12. (Old Testament) The first king of the Israelites who defended Israel against many enemies (especially the Philistines).
20. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
25. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
26. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
27. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
28. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
30. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
31. United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981).
32. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
42. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
46. A genus of Ploceidae.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
49. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
50. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
51. Denuded of leaves.
52. Again but in a new or different way.
54. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
61. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
62. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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